Historian. Educator. Author.

About

Steven Hyland Jr. is an award winning scholar and educator in the Department of History and Political Science at Wingate University. He teaches courses on Latin American history and world history, specializing in modern Argentina, international migration, and transnational social and political movements.

His new book project explores itinerant anti-imperial and nationalist radical political activists residing in and passing through Buenos Aires, Argentina between 1916 and 1966. This study follows a motley crew of hell raisers, spies, ne’er-do-wells, and people committed to radical change in order to create a better world however defined. The research focuses on Syrian and Lebanese anti-colonialists, Algerian and Catalan nationalists, Guatemalan and Cuban exiles and Croatian fascists, Galician anarchists and Irish republicans, and Argentine agitators, activists, and communists to more fully understand the importance of Buenos Aires in this period and the consequences on sociopolitical life in this Atlantic port city.

He believes teaching history is a public service and advocates proudly for undocumented students.

Hyland is also one of the co-hosts for the podcast Historias - the SECOLAS podcast, which features scholars and intellectuals discussing cutting edge research and offering perceptive observations on current events associated with Latin American and Caribbean societies.

He earned a B.A. and M.A. from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University. He resides in Charlotte, NC and anxiously awaits the return to greatness of his beloved Texas Longhorns.